The elders maybe still remember this hymn of praise for the SED (East-German Communist party): „The party, the party, is always right!“ But those who think that only the Stalinists think so must be mistaken. Almost all the Spanish parties, right or left, act on this maxim when it comes to languages.

More and more Spaniards are turning to the UN for helpA cry for help from Mallorca

The well-informed are aware of the shortage of doctors in the Balearics, because the knowledge of Catalan is more important to the local government than proof of medical competence. Now several Balearic civil organizations have turned to the UNESCO.

A German witness in the Madrid trial against separatist politiciansB. v. Grünberg, lawyer and social democrat, takes a position

Bernhard von Grünberg, member of the (German) North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. observed the events surrounding the attempted referendum on 1 October 2017 in Catalonia. He was recently heard as a witness in the trial in Madrid. A reason to ask him some questions.

He did not answer these questions, but he sent an interesting statement, worth to read.

A majority turns to the UN representative for minoritiesSituation of the linguistic rights of Spanish speakers

Absurd: Spanish speakers are also in the majority in all autonomous regions with regional co-official languages. Nevertheless, their rights are ignored everywhere. Now they have turned to the UN minority rapporteur for help. Particularly informative is Chapter 3, where the sober facts about the situation are detailed.

Do languages have rights?

Again and again you hear from separatists,

* that you have to protect the languages, * that languages are the wealth of a nation, * that the different languages should have the same rights, * that languages have the right to take their rightful place in their territory, * that languages should not be lost, * that you have to defend languages.

That sounds very plausible at first glance, who is not for equal rights? Let's take a closer look. What is language? Language is a sophisticated tool of human communication in contrast to animal communication, which exists at a rather very low level.

So language is a tool, like a key, a car, a computer. Do tools have rights?

How our kids are indoctrinated

This week, teachers distributed pamphlets to the children, asking their parents to place orders until March 1 for T-shirts intended for a day of festival.

Newspapers amongst others the "Libertad Digital" report that behind the action was the separatist Escola Valenciana, who pomotes these encounters with the intention of persuading the children that they would have to speak Valenciano in future. [1] That does not sound unlikely, considering that the Valencian government has already sent out a bus staffed by young fanatics telling our kids to use Valenciano instead of their mother language [2]

I do not know if the teachers were ordered to support the political action of "our" separatist and nationalist Minister of Education. But I wonder, did the teachers use their brains, when they gave out the pamphlets?

Should we, who want the freedom of choice of language in the education of our children, now equip our children with counter-t-shirts, so that the children better recognize during the breaks with whom to start a row? Unbelievable. Already bad enough that Valenciano is imposed upon our children. I'd say, please leave them alone! Don't let them get involved.

Otherwise they end up like many parts of Catalonia's youth that found themselves alone on the streets yesterday during the "big general strike" in Catalonia, where the only adults seemed to be employees of the Catalan government and Government related companies.

What effect will the trial of the 'procés' have?

Some Catalan politicians are on trial since February 12th 2019, and newspapers around the world carry headlines about this.

It is to be feared that legal arguments will be rolled back and forth, experts will speak out, one knows that. It is clear that the Catalans have no right to secession, that is what really stands for the so-called „right to self-determination“. Again and again, they will mistakenly refer to Spain vs. Catalonia, while in reality it is an intra-Catalan conflict, that is, union or secession.

It is a fear that the real problem will not be debated and that the people affected will not be guaranteed to be heard in this trial, i.e. the people who are affected by the 'procés'. Why is that?

Myths and deceptions of the Catalan nationalists

The trial of the Catalan politicians has been postponed until 12 February.

Therefore there is time to prepare thoroughly for the arguments that the Catalan nationalists will produce. Alvaro Peredo has a homepage called piratas & emperadores (pirates and emperors). He refers to the famous journalist and novelist George Orwell quoting an anecdote from the time of Alexander the Great. Alexander has captured a pirate and asks him: "Do you dare to rob on the sea?" To which he replies: "You dare to rob the whole world, I have only a small boat, so you scold me pirate, you have a whole fleet and you call yourself Emperor."

George Orwell, who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, is well known to many through his 1984 book (written in 1948), in which he describes a future dictatorship (The Big Brother) that gives words new meanings (war is peace!) and constantly adapts the historiography to the recent requirements of the dictatorship.

Peredo describes in his voluminous document, based on well over 400 sources and quotes, how the Catalan nationalists have reinterpreted word meanings and history in Orwellian style.

100,000 euros penalty for Playmobil?

Whittling

Since the summer of last year there is a shortage of doctors in the Balearic Islands because of the decree of the local government that all employees in the public health service must be able to speak in Catalan. The Valencian government had previously waived this decree, because they fear a shortage of physicians here, too.

Yesterday, Las Provincias announced that all civil servants/employees managing a Valencian institution must be able to speak Catalan.

Today El Mundo reports that in the Balearic Islands now the judicial staff and lawyers must speak Catalan. This should even apply to the employees of the central government authorities, for which the Balearic government has no authority. This does not take into consideration that the decrees on Catalan language are agianst the law. Not only is the majority of the Balearic people Spanish-speaking, but also the Balearic Statute of Autonomy defines clearly that there are 2 co-official languages, namely Spanish and Catalan.

January 9, 2019

Half of PSOE voters reject dialogue with Torra

They also call for the application of §155 in Catalonia, reports El País this morning in the main article.

Much criticism came after our last article: "Beware of Sánchez, the incumbent prime minister!", we would support the far-right. Of course, these critics must now ask themselves, if they would extend this criticism to half of the PSOE voters.

Of course, Sánchez is in an extreme situation, he can only remain in government if he makes compromises with these ultra-right separatist leaders. But these compromises must not be at the expense of the Spanish-speaking majorities in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.

Pancatalanismthe separatist's imperial claim

The Catalan government exports the conflict into communities with Catalan population, supporting all efforts of the separatists including financial means to destroy Spain. An important tool is the establishment of a language dictatorship that is not afraid to use the same means as Franco.

Separatist indoctrination

In 2017, the teachers' union AMES published a study on school textbooks, as they appeared in Spain and in Catalonia on the same topic. In this study the indoctrination becomes clear, as it describes how Separatists operate. It is now translated into English

Publications

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